Vanessa Marzullo

Vanessa Marzullo (1993-) is an Italian aid worker who was kidnapped in December 2014 by the Al-Nusra Front while helping people during the Syrian Civil War, alongside Greta Ramelli. On 15 January 2015, both of them were released after Italy paid their ransom money.

Biography
Vanessa Marzullo was born in 1993 in Brembate, Province of Bergamo, in the Lombardy region of northern Italy. Marzullo became an aid worker of aid group Horryaty, which specialized in health and clean water projects. She made two trips to Syria with Greta Ramelli, helping the people who were victims of the Syrian Civil War. However, in December 2014 the two of them were captured by armed gunmen of the al-Qaeda Al-Nusra Front in Aleppo Province, and on 17 December 2014 the two of them appeared in a video in which they, dressed in Islamic niqabs, asked their government to help them. Italy decided to pay their ransom money, and the two of them were released to Italy on 15 January 2015.